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Anne-Marie #121492 09-08-2010 01:25 PM
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Wow maybe you should teach classes on how to go through treatment for cancer without missing a beat. I ended up in ICU for 11 days due to the pain meds.


55 12/17/09 High Grade Muceopidermoid Carcinoma Alerted by Largo my Mini Schnauzer
1/18/10 Clr PET
1/27/10 Surgery found Perineural invasion
3/22/10 Began Rad
05/05/10 34 rads
8/19/10 Clr Pet Scan
12/13/10 Clr Ultra sound/biopsy
5/4/11 MRI Clear
8/2/11 All Clear
5/25/12 All Clear
6/3/2016 All Clear
5/25/2025 All Clear
Anne-Marie #121493 09-08-2010 01:52 PM
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I have the mask. I named him Ray Beam. See caringbridge.org/visit/randyessex for a picture of Ray wearing the Panama hat I bought to protect me from the sun.
David, the radiation oncologist was more impressed that I'm still eating mostly solid food (eggs, bologna [which I can still taste, oddly enough], corn, and a black bean/guacamole soup my wife devised) than that I am still exercising.


Randy, Stage 3 tonsil SCC, node involvement, HPV-positive. 7 sessions of Taxol-Carboplatin, 35 rads finished 9/8/10. Post-TX PET and CT 12/1 showed "no metabolic evidence of residual or recurrent disease." Yay!
Anne-Marie #121752 09-14-2010 09:45 AM
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Glad to hear that you are doing so well!!!!!! smile


Charles

HPV +16 Right Tonsil SCC with 1 Right lymph node. Tonsillectomy and neck resection.

Got 33 radiation doses via tomo machine (58 gry to back of throat, 65 gry to right neck, and 56 gry to left neck) with 2 cisplatin and one carboplatin due to possible hearing loss.
Irishgypsie #122169 09-23-2010 12:51 PM
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Getting off pain meds this week and going back to work Oct. 11. Still kind of tired as the radiation continues to work � and tired of my mouth feeling dirty � but otherwise doing well and feeling good.


Randy, Stage 3 tonsil SCC, node involvement, HPV-positive. 7 sessions of Taxol-Carboplatin, 35 rads finished 9/8/10. Post-TX PET and CT 12/1 showed "no metabolic evidence of residual or recurrent disease." Yay!
randy58 #122179 09-23-2010 03:34 PM
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You must be feeling pretty good to be ready to return to work so soon. You will still see more improvements for the next 2 years. Best of luck with returning to work.


PS Thanks for sharing your caring bridge journal. Great pics smile


Christine
SCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44
2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07
-65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr
Clear PET 1/08
4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I
surg 4/16/08 clr marg
215 HBO dives
3/09 teeth out, trismus
7/2/09 recur, Stg IV
8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy
3wks medicly inducd coma
2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit
PICC line IV antibx 8 mo
10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg
OC 3x in 3 years
very happy to be alive smile
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